The ferret's susceptibility to influenza viruses has been well documented and characterized, and the species has increasingly contributed to the understanding of influenza pathogenesis and ...

We can't get enough of this litter of black-footed ferrets that was born last month at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI), the National Zoo's research facility in Front Royal, Va.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Black-footed ferrets were nearly wiped out by plague in the 1980s, and were only saved by a last-ditch effort to pull the 18 remaining individuals ...

Both diseases sent ferret numbers dwindling in 1986 to less than 20, with only seven of those capable of breeding - making recovery a perilous proposition. But for Hogg, the thought occurred 25 years ...